Comment 1 for bug 460173

I have some more information on this - the deb I had gotten was corrupted. However, the fact still remains that cmdline "dpkg" was able to tell me incorrect architecture and gdebi was not.

The issue can be duplicated by taking a good i386 .deb and corrupting it (by opening it in an editor and changing some values). dpkg will still report incompatibility between architectures, while gdebi thinks it's a permissions related issue.

Ideally, I would appreciate some corruption detection - however at the very least to be identical to dpkg's error reporting.